“[Men are] afraid of our terms, which are not all rational, positive, competitive, etc. And so he has taught us to despise and deny them. In our society, women have lived, and have been despised for living, the whole side of life that includes and takes responsibility for helplessness, weakness, and illness, for the irrational and the irreparable, for all that is obscure, passive, uncontrolled, animal, unclean — the valley of the shadow, the deep, the depths of life. All that the Warrior denies and refuses is left to us and the men who share it with us and therefore, like us, can’t play doctor, only nurse, can’t be warriors, only civilians, can’t be chiefs, only indians. Well so that is our country. The night side of our country. If there is a day side to it, high sierras, prairies of bright grass, we only know pioneers’ tales about it, we haven’t got there yet. We’re never going to get there by imitating Machoman. We are only going to get there by going our own way, by living there, by living through the night in our own country.
So what I hope for you is that you live there not as prisoners, ashamed of being women, consenting captives of a psychopathic social system, but as natives. That you will be at home there, keep house there, be your own mistress, with a room of your own. That you will do your work there, whatever you’re good at, art or science or tech or running a company or sweeping under the beds, and when they tell you that it’s second-class work because a woman is doing it, I hope you tell them to go to hell and while they’re going to give you equal pay for equal time. I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”
hi, i’m valerie, im a 25 yr old DJ, writer, live musician, events organiser and visual artist
i’m in the long and frustrating process of moving to norway from the UK and i am now short on rent!!! which really sucks, as i’ve been moving around a lot the past couple years and this is the most comfortable and easy to live in place i’ve had in a really really long time, I know there is stuff in the world going on much more warranting of your money, but I really need this, so please help me out?
I don’t have much to offer in return besides my art/work, which is linked above. thank you so much for reading this far!!! <3333333
anything helps, and if you can’t help monetarily, please share!!!
How clearly does the point need to be made that “police officer” is just a fucking job, one with minimal training and minimal monitoring. It is NOT some kind of promise of honesty, truth, or heroism. It is a bunch of assistant managers with extremely powerful weapons. IF you can understand “pedophiles choose to be priests and teachers so they can get to children”, IF you understand “arsonists choose to be firefighters so they can be present at their own crimes” - then you can ALSO understand “people who are bigoted, violent, and power-hungry choose to be cops for the opportunities the job presents” and you can ALSO understand “any occupational culture that chooses fraternity over justice - and the allowance of violence in the name of a unified front - is therefore siding with their worst representatives”
being a police officer is an entry-level job, and we are handing them weapons. nothing about their occupation automatically makes them smarter, quicker, braver, or in any way elite. there is very little in their onboarding process that would allegedly “weed out” the worst of the applicants - and once they are part of the fraternity, they’re not gonna leave.
we have been taught to respect, honor, and worship them by virtue of a job title they barely even had to try for. they sign no contract, swear no vow, and make no promise to the general public. it is a community that is extolled above others and given virtually no oversight. think about the kind of people who would be attracted to that opportunity. the adage: power corrupts. absolute power corrupts absolutely.
circling this back around to say FUCK ICE, and fuck you if you willingly support them just because they’re “a federal agent” and therefore “deserve respect”.
ICE officers are a fucking privatized militia they do not have authority over united states citizens and none of their so-called “purpose” requires live rounds and weapons. It is entirely made up of fascist racist dickbags with no fucking training. they are lower than scum. they’re police-school dropouts with no fucking spine. there is no honor in their position. they accomplish nothing but terrorizing communities they don’t even fucking live in.
Any!! occupation or government !! that chooses fraternity over justice - and the allowance of violence in the name of a unified front - is therefore siding with their worst representatives.
hi, i’m valerie, im a 25 yr old DJ, writer, live musician, events organiser and visual artist
i’m in the long and frustrating process of moving to norway from the UK and i am now short on rent!!! which really sucks, as i’ve been moving around a lot the past couple years and this is the most comfortable and easy to live in place i’ve had in a really really long time, I know there is stuff in the world going on much more warranting of your money, but I really need this, so please help me out?
I don’t have much to offer in return besides my art/work, which is linked above. thank you so much for reading this far!!! <3333333
anything helps, and if you can’t help monetarily, please share!!!
Yeah I said something similar yesterday but we can NOT let what happened to Renee Good cloud what happened to everyone else at the hands of these SS Demons!!!
Because we can’t disregard one person if we’re for human rights!
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renee Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y'all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims. (Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com)
The second screenshot above reads:
Renee Nicole Good wasn’t the first killed by ICE...
In 2025, ICE murdered: Silverio Villegas Gonzalez Carlos Roberto Montoya Valdez Genry Ruiz Guillén Serawit Gezahagn Dejane Maksym Chernyak Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez Brayan Garzón-Rayo Nhon Ngoc Nguyen Marie Ange Blaise Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado Jesus Molina-Veya Johnny Noviello Isidro Pérez Tien Xuan Phan Chaofeng Ge Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas Oscar Rascon Duarte Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Miguel Ángel García Medina Johnny Noviello Santos Banegas Reyes Ismael Ayala-Uribe Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Miguel Ángel García Medina Huabing Xie Leo Cruz-Silva Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh Josué Castro Rivera Gabriel Garcia Aviles Kai Yin Wong Francisco Gaspar-Andrés Pete Sumalo Montejo Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani Jean Wilson Brutus Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir Delvin Francisco Rodriguez Nenko Stanev Gantchev
In 2026, ICE has murdered 2 people:
Keith Porter [New years eve 2025] Renee Nicole Good
-From the ICE_Raids Community on Reddit
And to all of our lovely WWC Followers, particularly those in the United States:
Take care. Take care of each other, your community, yourselves.
Travel in groups and make sure your loved ones know where you are. And absolutely know your rights.
And even in troubled times, try to find a spark of hope, creativity and comfort and hold onto it. For even joy is resistance.
“The groundbreaking electronic music composer and educator Pauline Oliveros (…) dedicated a great deal of her life’s work to spreading her philosophy of Deep Listening, a series of practices and writings teaching the core differences between hearing and listening.
Oliveros long meditated on the concept that hearing is involuntary in nature, while listening requires consciousness.
This is to say, she made a strong case that the act of listening was virtually incompatible with multitasking. In the Oliveros tradition, listening is something that requires focused attention on the act of listening, to music or sound or the natural world or the person next to you.”
Quoted in Liz Pelly, Mood Machine. The Rise of Spotify, p. 36.
ref: Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice (Deep Listening Publications, 2005).
shamefully, i haven’t made a post about amal and her family @amal-ashour-new in some time. but amal has never left me, at least she has never left my heart. amal is one of the palestinians who has been on this website asking for help the longest, she’s been verified multiple times and even offers her phone number to people who want to talk to her. she is a kind, gracious, and beautiful person
when i first spoke to her, her daughter maryam was just 1 and half years old. she needed milk. the genocide was raging worse than ever. now, maryam is 3, and she has a sister. amal had mina less than a month ago, and luckily the delivery went well, but mina was still born in beseiged gaza, and now amal has run out of milk and is trying to protect newborn mina from the freezing cold and floods that have already taken the lives of babies in gaza. mina’s crying from chafing, her mother suffering from worry because she can’t provide her baby milk! can you imagine? i’m sure many of you can
gofundme completely shut her fundraiser down because it’s evil and complicit but she has a new fundraiser on chuffed and it’s not even a fifth of the way to its goal. she is vetted by @bilal-sala7 (line #46)
thank you for remembering us and sharing our story. it means so much that you see what we’re going through. i’m just trying to keep my daughters safe—maryam and newborn mina—through the cold, the floods, and the siege. mina was born in these impossible conditions, and every day i worry about giving her even the basics, like milk and warmth. your words, your support, and your voice remind the world that we’re real, that we’re still here, and that every bit of help matters. 🤍
(Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of signs (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world? It is the same told of all. Many. Miscegenations on miscegenations. Tieckle. They lived und laughed ant loved end left. Forsin. Thy thingdome is given to the Meades and Porsons. The meandertale, aloss and again, of our old Heidenburgh in the days when Head-in-Clouds walked the earth. In the ignorance that implies impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality. But with a rush out of his navel reaching the reredos of Ramasbatham. A terricolous vivelyonview this; queer and it continues to be quaky. A hatch, a celt, an earshare the pourquose of which was to cassay the earthcrust at all of hours, furrowards, bagawards, like yoxen at the turnpaht.
hi :) i’m currently out of work at the moment because i’ve been sick with a respiratory illness AND more importantly, i’ve developed bell’s palsy last wednesday because of being ill specifically (proof below).
i’m pretty shocked, sad & worried about the whirlwind of circumstances i’ve been faced with since this happened. i’m set to see a neurologist soon & i know i’ll be recommended physical therapy to help with recovery.
unfortunately though, my health insurance isn’t accepted by the clinics that specialize in neurological PT in my local area (shocker, i know). this obviously means i’m gonna have to come up with some type of money out of pocket that i don’t have at the moment.
due to the nature of my condition, i’m sure that itwill run me between $100-$120+ per pt session in the near future, so i’ve set a goal of $500 to prep for this in advance. anything can and will help, including sharing this post around if you can’t donate! this post will self-destruct when the goal is met btw.
hey, i’m still at 10% of the current goal ($50). please continue to share this far and wide, don’t let this post slow down / die out ♥️
$50 / $500
still at 10% of the goal as of 12/20.
$50 / $500
gonna try making a new post because this one died and i still need support!
update 1/10/26: excuse me…… thank you to the ppls that saw my post again and got me to 50% of the way now 🥹!!
i stopped sharing my post for a week because i noticed support for it was dying down after just a couple of days passed. please reblog this post around - i’m almost at my goal!
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